Wire hoop



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB C. DURLING, OF MARINE CITY, MICHIGAN.

WIRE HOOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 336,706 dated February 23, 1886.

Application filed December 9, 1885. Serial No. 185,143. (No model To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JACOB G. DURLING, of Marine City, in the county of St. Clair and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Vite Hoops, of which the following isa specification, reference being had to the annexed drawings, forming a part thereof, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved wire hoop. Fig.2 is a perspective view of the fastener of the hoop. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of a modified form of the fastener.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts in the different figures of the drawings.

The object of my invention is to provide an inexpensive and efficient fastener for the ends of wire hoops.

My invention consists in a block grooved longitudinally, and apertured to receive the ends of the wire, which are bent outwardly and riveted in the block. The wireA of which the hoop is formed is turned outward at right angles at its adjacent ends, and the fastener B, by which the ends of the wire are secured, is formed ofa block of metal grooved longitudinally on its inner face, and provided with one or more apertures, a, for receiving the ends of the wire, as shown in Fig.1. The

outer ends of the wire are either riveted down upon the fastener, or where both ends of the wire are inserted in an oblong hole, as shown in Fig. 3, the ends are secured by passing between them, from the inner side of the hoop,

a rivet, b, which is riveted down on the outer side of the fastener, as shown in Fig. 3. The depth of the groove in the inner face of the fastener is about equal to the diameter of the wire, so that when the wire is riveted in the fastener in the manner described, the fastener will restnpon the barrel or cask in connection with which the hoop is used.

My improved hoop is simple and strong, and requires no special tools or appliances to form it or to secure its ends. It is as strong as a hoop made of the same quantity of material in the form of the ordinary hoop-iron, and

it is not so readily corroded as flat hoops hav- I ing large contact-surfaces and large surfaces exposed to the action of the elements.

To prevent the hoop from escaping from the barrel, in case it becomes loosened by shrinkage or otherwise, it is secured by staples 0, which are driven into the staves, so as to embrace the hoop.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As an improved article of manufacture, a hoop formed of the wire A, and the grooved and apertured fastener B, the ends of the wire being riveted in the fastener, substantially as described.

JACOB O. DURLING.

VVit-nesses:

JOHN J. SPINKs, J. O. MILLE 

